Fog Master
Tlingit · deity · mythic primordial · Recorded classification
Male; a deity-class being of the first age. Khanukh is also remembered as an ancestral name/crest of the Tlingit (the Kā'naqxᴀ.ádi). Swanton's orthography varies; the precise Tlingit form is reconstructed here as Khanukh. Attestation is thinner than for Raven, so weighted as supporting.
Domains
- fog and mist
Powers
- summon and command the fog
Relations
- rival: RavenReciprocal of tlingit_raven.rival — In the Veniaminov-Krause tradition the elder Khanukh, progenitor of the Wolf moiety, contests powers with Yelch the Raven and proves the mightier.A. Krause, Die Tlinkit-Indianer (1885) (secondary)
Sources
- Khanukh (Kanukh) is a primordial fog-being and rival of Raven, contending with him over which is the elder of the world's first beings.: Swanton, John R. Tlingit Myths and Texts, BAE Bulletin 39, 1909. (secondary)